Hi Ishaaq,
I'm using VM inside emacs, and I like it very much. If you are
interested by this kind of solution, you can try RMAIL first, which is
the default email package in emacs (should be included in your
distribution). VM is very similar to RMAIL, only more sophisticated,
and is not included in the basic emacs distribution.
Personally I'm using sendmail+fetchmail (on a standalone machine), but
RMAIL as well as VM can get email themselves through POP, though I
haven't tried it myself.
Note that complex customization in both packages is made through
elisp, the Lisp-based macro language used within emacs. If you have
some familiarity with Lisp, it's better.
In any case, this is probably what you would consider a
powerful-but-demanding-at-first kind of solution.
HTH,
Jacques
Ishaaq K Chandy a �crit (8.11.1998):
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know where I can get a text-mode POP mail client? I'm fed-up
> Netscape's bugs and I guess something in text-mode would be more stable. I like
> Pine, however it does'nt support POP. Maybe something that looks like Pine but
> has POP support. I know I can use fetchmail and then use Pine once the mail has
> been downloaded with fetchmail, and then use sendmail to send out messages,
> however as this machine is a standalone, I think fetchmail and sendmail would
> be an overkill, moreover I'd like one package that does everything related to
> mail-handling.
>
> Thanks
> Ishaa
